Bitcoin transactions are not totally anonymous. Infact, the entire ledger is public, visible to anyone. Anyone with your bitcoin address can take a peek at your transaction history, balance and so on with ease. So while you can send and receive bitcoin without revealing your personal information, it is pseudo anonymous. But, by downloading and using Bitcoin’s Samurai wallet, you will be able to protect your privacy with a mechanism that is based on trusted cooperation between two wallets.
Google has removed popular bitcoin wallets, BitPay, Copay and Bitcoin.com from Play Store. This means that android phones will be not be able to install them (unless you get hold of its APK).
WeChat does what Chinese government wants and China wants to ban all cryptocurrency related channels on WeChat. So today, WeChat, which is developed by Tencent has blocked official sales channel of Bitmain.
Remitano is a popular P2P website where the users can buy and sell bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum and USDT with other users. Today, the portal has added BTC/USDT and ETH/USDT swap which allows you to sell your cryptocurrency for USDT instead of your local currency. It is possible to do the opposite – buy cryptocurrency with your USDT.
Navcoin team has churned out v4.3.0 and one of the major changes this core wallet brings is support for OpenAlias-ready domains to NavCoin addresses. This means you will be able to assign a user friendly and more memorable name to your Navcoin address. For instance, we assigned hello@nav.community to our address. NavCoin OpenAlias makes use of DNSSEC to prevent MITM attacks on the alias.
Bitcoin Gold will be removed from popular cryptocurrency exchange, Bittrex on September 14th 2018. All the pairings, BTC-BTG, ETH-BTG and USDT-BTG will be removed. That said, Bittrex is not the top liquidity provider as Bittrex’s popularity has been going downhill from quite some time. Majority of volume comes from HitBTC, Bithumb, Binance, Bitinka, and Bitfinex.
There is major news coming and it is related to the upcoming hard fork for Ethereum blockchain. The block reward is going to be reduced to 2 ETH in this Constantinople hard fork. This update is intended to smoothen out the changes that will be happening from PoW to PoS – proof of work to proof of stake.
Remember everybody used to bite Nickel,
Now everybody doin’ Bitcoin
Yes, Bitcoins gets a mention in the new album of Eminem “Kamikaze” where Royce da 5’9” said the aforementioned words. This is the tenth album by the top rapper. The mention of bitcoin clearly shows the significance of bitcoin. He says everybody is doing bitcoin and is not something to get rich quick or to buy bad things online.
Vertbase is an ambitious project that aims to provide a simple and secure way in purchasing Vertcoin with the US dollar. Think of it like a Coinbase but for Vertcoin. The experience is as simple as buying Bitcoin from Coinbase.
KuCoin crypto currency exchange has extended the lock-up period for the KuCoin shares held by founders and angel investors. The exchange has decided that these tokens will remain locked for an additional year, until September 2, 2019. This will definitely have a positive effect on the price of KuCoin Shares.